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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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atriots, had diedfor popular liberty, and Zenger, New Yorks first newspaper man, hadfought for the right of free speech, and obtained it. They threaded the crooked streets of the old town, and tried to imaginewhat it looked like in the days of beginnings when Wall street was really the street along the wall, and Pearl street was the Strand, or river beach.In fancy, they pulled down the towering modern building at 39 Broadway,and put in its place the two little huts built by Blocks shipwrecked sailors— first homes of the white man in New York. They stood on the breezyBattery, reminder of the vigorous Leisler, who gave it its name; they locatedthe circle of the ancient fort which had witnessed so manv momentous j scenes, but none more notable than the bold adoption of the colonistscharter of liberties in 1683. Here, at the corner of Pearl and Whitehall streets, they located thehouse in which had lived Leisler, the peoples governor, and recalled his THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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VIEW OF FEDERAL HALL, 1797.Where Washington was inaugurated. dramatic story; there, near at hand, had stood the queer old Stadt Huys, orCity Hall, where aristocracy and democracy had waged their earliest battles. It was all very interesting, because, as Christine said, it was makingover the past, and if you could only unthink, as she expressed it, all thereal brick and granite and iron, you could imagine the quaint old housesand odd surroundings of the place as they looked in Washingtons day. Uncle Tom helped them to unthink the modern dress. Call it Washingtons day, he said. ston and Clinton ; not far away Chief-Justice Jay keeps open house; onMaiden Lane lives Jefferson, while Hamilton, his great rival, is on Wallstreet; and here, in front of No. i Broadway, which is President Washing-tons resid

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